As fleets age and operating patterns change, owner-operators must balance day-to-day performance with long-term reliability and asset preservation. This topic covers maintenance strategies, reliability programs, inspection practices, forced outage reduction, failure analysis and life-extension decisions across generation fleets. The emphasis is on practical actions that improve availability, manage risk, control costs and help plants perform under more demanding market and operating conditions.

 

O&M, Reliability and Asset Life Educational Opportunities

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9:00 AM
  1. 250B
    180 mins
    These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION:   This c …
  2. 250A
    180 mins
    These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION: Utilitie …
1:00 PM
  1. 250A
    180 mins
    These courses are included for all-access badge holders. You can pre-register for your preferred course; however, seating is available on a first-come, first-served basis. COURSE DESCRIPTION:   Most p …
10:15 AM
  1. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Pipeline curtailments during extreme weather events have made on-site fuel back-up a reliability requirement, not just a contingency plan. For plant managers and directors of generation operating gas …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Bayswater is a large coal-fired station that has spent the past five years becoming something it was never designed to be: a flexible, market-responsive asset in a grid increasingly shaped by solar an …
  3. 250B
    50 mins
    Flexible coal operation starts in the mill, not the boiler. As renewable penetration forces coal units to cycle deeper and more frequently, pulverizer performance becomes a direct constraint on plant …
  4. 250E
    50 mins
    Generation plants that have been repowered or operated across multiple technology eras accumulate a common problem: the information needed to plan, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain the facility exi …
  5. 251A
    50 mins
    Much of the U.S. wind fleet is approaching or past the 20-year mark, and repowering economics increasingly depend on how much existing balance-of-plant infrastructure can be reused rather than replace …
11:15 AM
  1. 251B
    50 mins
    With new combined-cycle lead times stretching to 2029 and beyond, the strategic value of optimizing existing gas turbine assets has never been more direct. This session presents an updated fleet-wide …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Steam boilers were designed for steady baseload operation. As grid conditions push thermal fleets toward more frequent starts, deeper turndowns and aggressive cycling, the operating envelope shifts we …
  3. 250C
    50 mins
    Replacing analog safety systems with digital instrumentation and controls at a commercial nuclear reactor is a first-of-a-kind undertaking for most utilities. The engineering is complex, but the licen …
10:15 AM
  1. Thermal & Nuclear Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 1238
    50 mins
    Not all megawatts are equal. For combustion turbine peaking units, location is the primary driver of economic performance, and operational flexibility determines how much of that location advantage is …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Feedwater system erosion, high-energy piping degradation, and boiler component failures follow predictable patterns at most thermal plants. The repair decisions made during outages, often under time p …
11:15 AM
  1. 250B
    50 mins
    TVA operates more than 100 natural gas and fuel oil generators across 17 sites. Meeting NERC MOD-026 and MOD-027 compliance requirements on a fleet that size, using traditional on-site stage testing w …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Managing a portfolio of thermoelectric assets across multiple regions creates a familiar tension: local operating units develop strong execution capability but limited integration, and the inconsisten …
  3. 250E
    50 mins
    MRO inventory is where equipment reliability and working capital intersect. Overstocking creates obsolescence risk and ties up capital. Understocking drives stockouts, expedited freight, and extended  …
2:30 PM
  1. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    DTE Electric has operated mobile restoration assets as a formal component of its N-1 contingency planning since 2002, deploying mobile generators, mobile ISO transformer trailers and mobile pole ISO t …
9:30 AM
  1. 250A
    50 mins
    How much of a battery storage system's lifetime performance is determined at the cell level, and how much can be recovered through operational intelligence? That question has direct implications for w …
  2. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    A 2 x 250 MW lignite-fired plant in India increased its plant load factor from 50% to 65% through a focused O&M program targeting the highest-leverage reliability and performance gaps. The program cov …
10:30 AM
  1. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    When a transformer fails or a critical component goes down, recovery time is increasingly determined by supply chain availability, long manufacturing queues, specialized logistics and coordination dep …
11:30 AM
  1. O&M and Reliability Zone - Exhibit Hall Booth 4455
    50 mins
    Gas-side fouling deep within HRSG harp sections, including ferrous oxide scale, ammonium bisulfate deposits from SCR ammonia slip and insulation debris, accumulates on finned tube bundles where conven …

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